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3 ways the Coalition can fight back and restore Australia’s prosperity

The opposition should focus on solving three of the country’s biggest problems: housing, energy and tax.

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Steven Hamilton

The burning questions Hegseth left unanswered on the China challenge

The US defence secretary’s speech has helped to address, but will not silence, lingering questions about the Trump administration’s commitment to...

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Susannah Patton

Is private equity becoming a money trap?

The consensus on the asset class is being rewritten. The question now is not whether the model is broken, it is whether the exit is wide enough for...

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Daniel Rasmussen

Will Albanese stand up to Trump on trade and defence?

If played carefully, the US will have to accept Canberra can’t be kicked around, if for no other reason than they need the military bases on...

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James Curran

Big super mergers create havoc for fundies as mandates get yanked

It’s clear the days of investment managers raking in easy money ended long ago. And some of the best-known firms are getting hit hardest as demand...

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Joyce Moullakis

Political success doesn’t guarantee policy success

The Labor Party is promising to deliver its election agenda. But that won’t be anywhere near enough to address Australia’s economic challenges....

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Jennifer Hewett

Brookfield has made private equity’s life harder after Healthscope

The failure of the country’s second-largest private hospital operator will have implications for private investment in social infrastructure for...

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The Afr View

A complacent Wonder Down Under is heading for a productivity fail

Crazy levels of government spending, and Victoria’s status as one of the most indebted states in the world, helps explain Australia’s miserable...

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Christopher Joye

Glass cliffs? As the Liberals’ new leader, I couldn’t give a stuff

When the most successful political party in our nation’s history picks a leader, it doesn’t do so based on chromosomes, writes Sussan Ley.

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Sussan Ley

The flashing signals I just saw in Israel

Israelis and Gazans both feel trapped by leaders they no longer trust.

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Thomas Friedman

The disturbing things I learnt when my name appeared on the Rich List

When future Rich Lists are populated by beneficiaries rather than entrepreneurs, wealth inequality risks becoming a cancer on our egalitarian ethos.

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Alan Schwartz

I help kids get into Harvard. Here’s what I’m telling them now

Students from our region have never been strangers to headwinds. So to the families wondering whether to step back: Don’t. Step up.

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Jamie Beaton

Why the AFL struggles to kick out Richard Goyder

If an ASX-listed company can force the chairman’s hand, why not a sport beloved by many?

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Helen Bird

Director Awards underline importance of greater boardroom diversity

Homogeneity undermines accountability, stifles directors’ willingness to ask management the hard questions, and causes boards to succumb to mere...

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The Afr View

Investors shrug at Victorian debt bomb in search for new safe haven

For all the talk about the age of market vigilantism and deteriorating public balance sheets, there’s no lack of interest in Australian state...

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Jonathan Shapiro

Labor’s super tax is reasonable if done properly. Here’s why

The proposed tax changes could make Australia’s superannuation system fairer – if unintended consequences are avoided.

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Garry Weaven

Sussan Ley lays down the law to rivals

The opposition leader has marginalised her political rivals as she focuses on winning the economic narrative.

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Andrew Tillett

Why MAGA is obsessed with meddling in foreign countries

From South Africa to Europe, Donald Trump’s movement is fixated on other countries, contradicting its isolationist label.

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Janan Ganesh

Forget Trump and Harvard. Australian universities have an AI problem

Many students now lack the general knowledge, or even specific knowledge, to know when the AI tools are hallucinating, writes Sinclair Davidson.

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Sinclair Davidson

Rafael Nadal, a tennis legend for the ages

AFR readers’ views on Rafa, king of tennis; super tax reform; North West Shelf and gas exploration and why the US should get ahead on renewables.

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Afr Readers&x27 View

Why Labor could go all in on gas

The government’s sign-off on Woodside’s North West Shelf project is a signal it’s ready to take a more supportive approach to gas’ role in the...

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Ryan Cropp

Beware the rising ‘moron premium’ on US bonds

In one way, Donald Trump is like Republican predecessors – he believes in tax cuts. What is novel is the foreboding he creates about faith in...

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Edward Luce

North West Shelf green light signals warming to gas

It’s welcome acknowledgment gas will play a key role in the important net zero energy transformation that is proving longer, harder and more costly...

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The Afr View

Watt makes the only choice on Woodside

A new environment minister has finally granted a decades-long extension for operation of the vital North West Shelf project. But the fights over...

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Jennifer Hewett

Why Chalmers’ super tax isn’t real reform

Labor’s proposal to increase tax on super balances over $3 million will treat symptoms instead of the disease. Here are 6 proposals for an optimal...

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Robert Breunig

Before you trash carbon offsets, ask who pays for conservation

If private land-based funding isn’t going to come from taxpayers, then we should be striving to grow markets that support genuine conservation...

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Rob Wood

Trump’s Harvard ban exposes Australia’s foreign student problem

For lecturers striving to provide a meaningful learning experience for all, it presents a real dilemma when some students struggle with basic English.

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Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva

Ley might not save the Liberal Party, but she won’t die wondering

Sussan Ley speaks like someone reading a children’s book. Behind the scenes, she’s as ruthless as Thatcher.

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Phillip Coorey